He explained that God made people male and female. There were no "question marks." Gohmert said that throughout history trans people have been thought of as merely "perverse."

This led him, in a slightly meandering manner, to the notion of humanity's ending. It was quite a meandering:

I really wonder how many people in [the House], who have the ultimate power to decide whether humanity would go forward or not -- whether it was an asteroid coming, something that would end humanity on Earth as dinosaurs were ended at one time -- we've got a spaceship that can go, as Matt Damon did in the movie, plant a colony somewhere. We can have humans survive this terrible disaster about to befall. If you could decide what 40 people you put on the spacecraft that would save humanity, how many of those would be same-sex couples?

Yes, he wanted those listening to put themselves in the place of a "modern-day Noah."

He conceded that some animals are actually gay, but simultaneously suggested it wasn't worth taking gay animals into space either to save our species and the wildlife kingdom.